Back to Work

I have been off work for about ten months and this week I returned to work. I am doing a phased return to work which allows me to get 'shoehorned' in behind my desk once more without feeling as though I have to know everything right this minute. So with it being my first week I worked on Tuesday and Thursday.

I was amazed on Tuesday morning when I got back into my office just how much I had remembered. They may seem like simple things to those who have been working whilst I was off but for me it is a bit of an achievement. You see remembering where the key to my desk drawers was, the code to the photocopier and how to run the electronice risograph was like second nature to me a year ago but with such a long period of time not doing I thought I would have forgotton it all. But no. I was in the office all of ten minutes and felt as though I had never been away. But life goes on and there have been changes. Even though I don't know everything yet I am sure I will catch up pretty quickly and before I know it I will have caught up with all the changes going on.

Even though I have been in for two days, I still haven't seen everyone. I have been to busy trying to get into the swing of things in the office that I haven't had the chance to get round the place to see everyone. I get the feeling this might take longer than I expected.


Maybe now the creative juices will start to sort themselves out now that my mind is elsewhere for a few hours a day.

Long time coming

I can only apologise. This blog has been a long time coming to say the least. Over the last few months I have found myself in a lull. I have finished one novel and am still attempting to get it published, fingers crossed. I have done the background work on novel number two and have started writing but this is happening in fits and starts. I don't know why but for some strange reason I just haven't been able to get movtivated.

In the mean time I have been writing my personal journal to try and keep the writing up in some form or another. This seems to have worked to a certain extent. Even though I am not writing my novel everyday but my interest in short stories (my first love) has been rekindled as an idea came to me. The first one I have sent off to a woman's magazine only today. Not only have I don't that but I have come up with a second in what has now become a small series. This one I have written (I like to write long hand and then type up) and am in the process of typing up, with the idea for a third short story in my head. All along a similar vein, and so here is hoping to something happening. If my interest in my short stories has been re-ignited, then maybe the writing of the second novel will pick up pace. I will be forever living in hope of that one.

With work calling me back to the white page I best go and try and get this next short story finished and make sure I have backed it up. Until next time.